This course provides studentsí with deep and generic insights for understanding, evaluating, and improving the performance of production lines. The course covers different topics including: advanced inventory management and control techniques, advanced materials requirements planning, basic dynamics of production lines, the different variability sources in a production line, the corrupting influence of variability, evaluating the performance of production lines, and the effect of batching on production linesí performance.

arabic Describtion/Outcomes

objectives

To review the elementary concepts required for describing manufacturing systems.
To enable the student to identify the points of leverage in a plant, evaluate the impacts of the proposed changes, and coordinate improvement efforts.
To provide the student with the ability to bring together the disparate components of a system into an effective whole.